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adlai: my thinking is along the lines of a society/economy not having all its eggs in one basket. it doesn'
t have to have one egg per basket, with daily redistributions; a "fit economy still has strong inequality, but it's not skewed all the way to either side of the spectrum
mircea_popescu: i don'
t per se care what yu do, it's a moral discussion.
mircea_popescu: on the 0 1 infinity scale i readily see why 1 rather than 0, i just don'
t grok why infinity rather than one.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t follow the logic of how it would be useful "in general".
mircea_popescu: if they were merely offered a fair salary for their work they wouldn'
t take it because "it's not enough to live on". as if "living" is somehow fixed and god ordered that black guy in missouri must live better than black guy in senegal.
mircea_popescu: just like slag goes with burning coal for power, buncha idiots thinking they were "robbed of making it big like everyone else" goes with "we don'
t pay you but maybe you get a promotion"
adlai: at some point it'll be a good idea to make this thing usable to people who don'
t speak lisp, some sorta local webserver or rpc thingy
adlai: well there's a huge prejudice against germany the nation and german the language, even among people my age who don'
t have any family who suffered in the holocaust - but they just inherited the prejudice because it's so pervasive
adlai: wasn'
t it going to be 20 a few days ago?
mircea_popescu: we're not all one, all the same, all on the same plane. we don'
t interact with the same things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: iirc, it was designed by a woman. i won'
t psychiatrize on this point, but let's see what mircea makes of it! << i dun get it, so what if a woman designed it ?
mircea_popescu: i was half expecting the customs say something, but they didn'
t.
mircea_popescu: "o gosh jolly, wouldn'
t you rather take a blowjob instead ?"
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t decrypt jack if they sat on their head. what the fuck is this, the future or some shit /
thestringpuller: Kidnap someone with money, deliver ransom note, "pay in bitcoin or ELSE." You don'
t even have to have a drop point.
mircea_popescu: punkman: if Satoshi appears and says hey guys I lost the key to 250k coins, how much would the price go up? << wouldn'
t have any appreciable short term effect.
mircea_popescu: i didn'
t think of sons tbh. i guess that's what inheritance means.
cazalla: it's gonna have to go to 0 or 5,000 for my cock to get hard, 250 isn'
t even foreplay
punkman: cazalla: if your hypothetical killer has economical motives, I don'
t think it'd ever make sense not to try to steal/ransom.
cazalla: i'm not so sure.. if you kidnap satoshi's kid, maybe he pays the ransom but comes for you and yours once he has kid back.. can'
t know exactly how much he is holding or if he would part with all of them for his son
cazalla: maybe you strangle the kid for good measure, i don'
t know
jurov: same with assassination. you don'
t know if they haven'
t shared the keys
cazalla: but you can'
t know that for sure? if you turn around and strangle him, at least you know with good certainity his coins would never be moved and in a practical sense, are now lost
punkman: yeah but you don'
t get any tangible/immediate benefit
mircea_popescu: 5. mandatory hacking classes for all men. if you can'
t hack your way out of fort knox by age 16, you're going to be some vamp's slaveboi.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think i've ever observed as much of it as since being here.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Yeah Apparently Silbert's thing hasn'
t had withdrawals since August because paperwork
decimation: yeah, america has a pretty strong tradition of 'history doesn'
t matter, the world is getting better, we are an outpost of the future, etc'
mircea_popescu: but no, this never-ending american exceptionalism, where if they never wash baths don'
t exist and joe squarejaw invented "humidification", this process whereby you dab parts of yourself with a wet cloth.
mircea_popescu: because it wasn'
t technically possible to create oscillators good enough.
mircea_popescu: the point being that the chair you stand on is only solid in the sense that the wavelength is so tiny you don'
t have the time to fall through, because your time's quantisized.
ben_vulpes: the point being that one shouldn'
t be allowed to fire off an order and then immediately its cancellation just to see the market response?
ben_vulpes: lolno, even my dreams aren'
t that grand.
mircea_popescu: does this guy have not the slightest moral compunction about that one kid ? because why, because 5 million mouthbreathers that wouldn'
t read him anyway wouldn'
t see it in a million years ?
mircea_popescu: but wait! if they didn'
t pay "the same price" for an immigrant, they'd have to pay a higher price for a local
mircea_popescu: but there are these people in the middle, who either because they're young, or because they're marginally educated, or marginally intelligent, don'
t really find themselves in a position of serene immunity.
mircea_popescu: *: decimation thinks that time horizon has already been reached <<< pretty much. i dun know any great programmers that want to go to the us. i know some great progreammers stuck i nthere that haven'
t yet figured that yes, they can leave
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem much like pestilence is a hygiene problem. sure, it is. doesn'
t hurt having smooth surfaces tho.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: well, that didn'
t take long.. bitcoinfoundation.org has redesigned their website yet again <<< gotta do something...
mircea_popescu:
t anyway, since you seem to be pretty much the balance of still active freenode staff : rather than wasting time on this nonsense of some kid that thinks banal netbios ddos makes him a wizard (which i think has outlived its charm anyway)
thestringpuller: couldn'
t you get same effect by spinning up a bunch of AWS instances and storing data encrypted with GPG key?
decimation: if in the sense of 'have, but can'
t use', I agree
decimation: I don'
t agree. there are plenty of men, but none of them would be willing to give up their lives to further the cause of the transgendered in syria
assbot: Logged on 30-12-2014 04:51:09; asciilifeform: basic rules include: 1) don'
t be a loud, solitary point source. anywhere. ever. 2) spread spectrum, frequency hop, cryptographically driven 3) steganographically mix into existing spectrum garbage.
mircea_popescu:
t incidentally, how recent are these complains ? vandal seems to have moved on maybe a week or two ago.
ben_vulpes:
t: any chance you can make freenode autocloak people? i don'
t see the value in exposing everyone's IPs.
mircea_popescu:
t let me find you the relevant discussion in #freenode.
ben_vulpes:
t: well for a while anyone without a cloak got ddossed.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the misbehaving nerd who imagines his school experience is life experience. "oh, he wouldn'
t REALLY punch me in the face."
ben_vulpes: unmanned vehicles can pull arbitrary g loads, and be made across the spectrum of capability in a way that the manned vehicles currently aren'
t (probably couldn'
t be, due to procurement processes).
mircea_popescu: was carried out by men that didn'
t even own the fucking plane they used.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: the point is that "stealth" merely reduces the cross section, doesn'
t render things invisible.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "that 2x2 thing up at 30kft moving at mach 1.8 couldn'
t *possibly* be an airplane!" << I though it couldn'
t get anywhere near that fast because it is too fat.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the discussion can'
t possibly reach those merits,
ben_vulpes: "that 2x2 thing up at 30kft moving at mach 1.8 couldn'
t *possibly* be an airplane!"
mircea_popescu: so this magical dust "works" except it doesn'
t but it's okay because when it doesn'
t the shaman didn'
t really want it to ?
mircea_popescu: but forget about me for a second. drudge beheaded clinton, the libtards' most beloved president (mostly because he destroyed banks and everyone's savings to put 100k black bums in houses they can'
t afford and meanwhile destroeyd)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> still a horrible use of dollars. apple got to be apple by paying about 2-5% of that, over a decade. << It's a fake money problem really. Too many VC dollars that can'
t actually buy things so they go marketing pissing matches.
ascii_modem: lol! i can'
t even readily distinguish this incident from the ordinary background radiation of perverse chumpatronicity that surrounds everything sport-related at all times...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how is it a win lol. << If USG accepts it can'
t have nice things it can try to still be kind of the dump
gribble: punkman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 22 hours, 45 minutes, and 46 seconds ago: <punkman> if I wasn'
t already smoker, I'd probably start right about now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the freedom of the semiconductor belongs - not! to the fellow with the factory - but the one who controlls the entire process stack << so much bull. and i suppose the freedom of the press belongs to conde nast, because mp can'
t write a blong and it can'
t be more widely read than mashable because wikipedia won'
t admit to it and that matters. o.O and okay...
mircea_popescu: it doesn'
t actually have the oomph to carry it through
mircea_popescu: how does isis know the dushkas aren'
t really "gushkas" ?
ascii_modem: lol which 'yourself' ? and how to know it wasn'
t a hangout design
ascii_modem: that money only existed for as long as it wasn'
t put to work << definition of bezzle, aha
mircea_popescu: that money only existed for as long as it wasn'
t put to work, much like buffett's billions worth of chewinggum empires
mircea_popescu: in any case, money and us dollars aren'
t fungible, and so no, nobody could ever have used the billions poured into cybersecurity for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: i can use my bitcoin to pay for a hit on obama. one can'
t even use his dollars in lumps larger than 10k, we don'
t even get to discuss the content because the form already trips us up.
mircea_popescu: what they couldn'
t ever do, no matter what nominal value each coconut theoretically reaches, is buy a sloop.
mircea_popescu: decimation: imagine if the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure terminal from first principles << there's a fundamental problem with soft, fiat, paper money, that it can'
t be used for arbitrary purposes, which is the very meaning of "soft" in their name.